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Although the true origin of the name of Cambodia’s second largest city, Siem Reap, which was rediscovered in the last century due to the presence of the historic architecture of the Angkor temples, is currently unknown, a legend says that it was the Khmer monarch Ang Chan, who named the city Siem Reap (translated as:Continue reading “THE KHMER EMPIRE IN SIEM REAP”